Caterine Walsh has won Ireland’s first gold at the ITU World Duathlon Championships in Edinburgh. Cat and her pilot Francine Meehan won the Cat 6 classification for visually impaired athletes. Speaking after the win, Walsh said, “We come from a cycling background, so we were really pleased to stay with the British girls on the first run. I’m delighted with that, it’s fantastic.” They failed to mention that their bike split was 2nd overall, with only one men’s team ahead of them. Not content with their win, they’ve got another bike race in Edinburgh on Saturday.
Full results from the World Duathlon Champs are online here.
Cat & Francis are only just back from the World Paracycling World Championships in Canada, where they finished 2nd in the timetrial. Full results are here.
In the age-group race Anne Speight and the current Irish Duathlon champion; Eilis Connery (Belpark) has finished 3rd in the respective 20-24 and 25-29 age-groups. Plus the former elite duathlete and multiple Irish champion; Anne Paul (Triangle Tri) finished 4th in the 45-49 age-group as has Paul Carroll (Olympia Tri) 4th in his age-group, 40-44.
Eimear Mullan from Limavady finished 11th in the Women’s elite race, adding to her 4th place in the Antwerp Ironman 70.3. Local favorite and former world and european duathlon champion Cat Morrison is captured finishing in the bottom clip. Bryan Keane didn’t start the men’s elite race, due to illness.
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